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...stores and in foods like yogurt. So far, the best results have been seen in the treatment of diarrhea, particularly in children. But researchers are also looking into the possibility that beneficial bacteria may thwart vaginal infections in women, prevent some food allergies in children and lessen symptoms of Crohn's disease, a relatively rare but painful gastrointestinal disorder...
...advisory panel last week recommended approval for a new drug, infliximab, to treat Crohn's disease--a painful, chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. There's no cure for Crohn's, but infliximab, which is administered intravenously, significantly reduces symptoms--sometimes for months at a time. Final approval is expected by this fall...
INTESTINAL RELIEF Injections of an experimental antibody may greatly improve hard-to-treat cases of Crohn's disease. Crohn's is a painful chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract...
...Fish oil may be effective to treat CROHN'S DISEASE, the chronic inflammatory-bowel condition. More than half of patients in remission from the disease were spared a relapse by taking fish-oil capsules. They used a new slow-release form that lessened the oil's typical side effects, such as fishy body odor...
...included Dr. Daniel Present of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City reported that the antirejection drug cyclosporine, usually used for transplant patients, helped patients with colitis. After the study was completed, he prescribed the immunosuppressive drug for one of his patients, who had a similar condition called Crohn's disease, only to learn that her health-maintenance organization would not pay for it. The woman's father finally had to put her in the hospital and pay $10,000 for the treatment out of his own pocket. Although her condition improved within days, the HMO still refused...